This article discusses the request for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main referring the question whether the liability of the French insurer Allianz France towards a German appellant for defective silicone breast implants is dependent on the interpretation of the prohibition of anti-discrimination (Article 18 TFEU).

On 30 October 2018, the European Commission (EC) published a new version of its Manual on Borderline and Classification in the Community Regulatory Framework for Medical Devices (version 1.20) (the Manual). This is the second time the EC updates the Manual this year, after the last revision took place in April 2018 (version 1.19).

On 17 October 2018, the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published a policy paper entitled “The Future of Healthcare: Our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care” (the Policy Paper).

We recently held a Simmons & Simmons Healthcare Hub dinner discussing the ground-breaking genomics work that is currently taking place in the UK and the potential for the mapping of genomes to transform our everyday healthcare.